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I highly recommend that you look into effective altruism before making a decision. It may give you insights that enable you to scale the amount of good you're able to do with this money by many orders of magnitude. I can recommend the book Doing Good Better as an introduction.
You have the resources to do a tremendous amount of good, and I hope you'll take some time researching on how to maximize it.
Okej fair enough. Det förändrar dock inte det faktum att dom är inte är kostnadseffektiva. Jämför med t.ex Against Malaria Foundation eller Helen Keller International.
Att man vill gott kan fortfarande betyda att man har väldigt olika effektivitet i hur man går till väga med det. Jämför t.ex att köpa villor till hemlösa jämfört med att köpa A-vitamintillskott till fattiga barn i Afrika/Asien. En villa kostar massvis medan A-vitamin kostar ungefär 30-40 kr per år och barn. Ett kanske fånigt exempel, men vissa organisationer är hundratals gånger kostnadseffektivare än andra. Är du intresserad kan jag rekommendera boken Doing Good Better.
Kyrkan vill säkert gott, men är dom inte i närheten av lika kostnadseffektiva som många andra organisationer.
This is bad and neoliberals should be economically literate enough to know why.
Cost effectiveness of interventions + room for additional funding. Scott is completely disregarding both concepts and giving money to whatever sounds good. There will evergreen be a book written on Scott's philanthropy and it will probably have accomplished nothing at all. Would be better off as capital for Bezos to have allocated privately with the intention of profit (Amazon and other Bezos projects will do more total good for humanity than all of Scott's cockamamey donations do) and the money would certainly do more good via the Gates/Effective Altruism style of hyper targeting the most coat effective causes, giving only as much as they can each deploy, and funding research into high financial risk but high expected return research, both for profit and not-for-profit.
A bery enlightening book on these principles: https://smile.amazon.com/Doing-Good-Better-Effective-Altruism/dp/1592409660/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3VU1ZFHVZ0ICE&keywords=doing+good+better&qid=1638468006&sprefix=doing+goo%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-1
Charity Navigator does not evaluate the effectiveness of charities. They evaluate whether the charity has high overhead and whether they spend money where they say they do. You can get a perfect 100/100 CharityNavigator score for handing out copies of The Art of the Deal to malnourished Africans, or baptizing gays in Bangladesh, so long as you do it in with low overhead and healthy finances.
To assist you in your journey, I recommend the book "Doing Good Better" by Oxford professor William MacAskill, which explains this and essentially every other method and mistake in evaluating charity effectiveness. A very interesting read too.
Yup. People donated millions for a futuristic autonomous eco-friendly machine but we're ultimately given 2 fishing boats and a net that is problematic, as you pointed out, but any criticism is met with "at least he's trying", "it's better than nothing" or "what have you done?"
For anyone who doesn't want their donations to go to waste on impossible or useless ideas, I recommend reading "Doing Good Better".
I highly recommend this book called "Doing Good Better". It explains a lot about the flaws in charitable giving and how to make your donations have the biggest impact.
The gap in charitable giving and volunteering is well documented. I don't have access to a research database, but this article discusses the research on volunteering and charitable giving near the end. It also links its sources. https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/04/research-finds-conservatives-are-more-happy-generous-and-purposeful-than-liberals/
This book has the data in it if you need a more scholarly source. I got it from my library a few years ago. https://www.amazon.com/Who-Really-Cares-Compassionate-Conservatism/dp/0465008232
I'm not trying to poop on liberals, either. I grew up in a hard left union household. I just think your arguments aren't holding up.
I think people should be able to get an abortion because I don't give a shit what other people do, and I don't think it matters much if a fetus is killed. This won't convince pro life people, but I don't care.
I’m pretty firm on discontinuing the discussion of abortion/embryology/evolution/species nomenclature. At least for now.
But I’m always interested in passing on and receiving tips on good books.
Here’s one you might like.
I get it that you're heartless and power hungry dude....
Those are solutions. Lower prices / inflation, elimination of moral hazards and people keeping more of their own money is the solution (all while not commiting moral wrongs).
Don't worry, you won't have to take care of poor people hurt by Lib / Prog polices. Republicans will voluntarily take care of the poor, just like they do now (social science is clear on this.)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465008232/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_9JQ2F99J8SXGTERBQGGF
Great book on this subject is "Who Really Cares" by Arthur Brooks.
From Amazon:
We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert, spent years researching giving trends in America, and even he was surprised by what he found. In Who Really Cares, he identifies the forces behind American charity: strong families, church attendance, earning one's own income (as opposed to receiving welfare), and the belief that individuals-not government-offer the best solution to social ills. But beyond just showing us who the givers and non-givers in America really are today, Brooks shows that giving is crucial to our economic prosperity, as well as to our happiness, health, and our ability to govern ourselves as a free people.
Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465008232/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glc_fabc_XK9ZF9K71AJ0GW0AQJQW
If you want to actually help, do something that actually helps: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/report/cool-earth/
Throwing money at actively managed "green ETFs" just makes you poorer, increases your risk, and doesn't really benefit anyone except the fund manager. You want to be rich so you have the money to positively and directly impact the world. Invest for the money, and spend the gains wisely in charity.
The guys over at /r/effectivealtruism think about these concepts extensively. Here’s a short primer:
https://concepts.effectivealtruism.org/concepts/timing-of-philanthropy/
I really like their thinking in general, giving should be rational, not emotional.
I highly recommend reading “Doing good better”, a good intro to their thoughts. It’s available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Good-Better-Effective-Altruism/dp/1592409660
There is a really good book on this called doing good better. The hole premis is how can you make the most impact with your job, no matter what you do. It covers how to assess charities and how advice on your career path. Highly recommend.
https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Good-Better-Effective-Altruism/dp/1592409660
There's a really good book called Doing Good Better that talks about where to put your money to have the most impact. iirc, he's behind GiveWell, which ranks charities.
They do it on bulls to make them steers. I looked for a picture of what it looks like afterward to send you, but I wound up finding this instead:
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Play-Lion-Testicles-Unexpected/dp/1933016825
So, that's a thing.
Check out Doing Good Better to get a better idea of how to donate effectively (ie to places that improve quality of life more than others, places that don't blow money on overheads, etc.) This book literally changed my life.
But still, you can wonder about a lot of people why they don't donate more, not just millionaires. A person earning 50k a year could just as easily donate 1% of their income. There's even the giving what we can pledge encouraging people like you and me to donate 10% of their income to effective causes, and pretty much anyone with a stable income and life situation is able to do this.
It's always easy to look at other people and wonder why they don't do more. And while of course for millionaires it would be even easier to live with 99% of what they have, people in extreme poverty could rightly wonder why many of us right here don't even donate 1%.
Slightly out of scope here, but for anybody interested in the topic of charities, helping the poor and generally solving global problems, I highly encourage you to read the book Doing Good Better.
Read the book "Who really cares" it turns out that democrats give the least to charity by far.
Then look at this: http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/03/15/trump-paid-a-higher-tax-rate-than-obama-comcast-and-bernie-sanders/
It's all bullshit window dressing to get votes.
There was a recent Joe Rogan podcast that featured Will MacAskill, a proponent of effective altruism. Like most of Rogan'a podcasts, this one is filled with tangents, but I think you will find the part about effective altruism interesting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLk1Sqn_f33KuS7ZSVMJqzFaqOyyl-esmG&v=buyBzK5yM-s
Here is a link to Will's book: https://www.amazon.com/Doing-Good-Better-Effective-Altruism/dp/1592409660
Though it may take a lot of work, you could start a non-profit for a cause that is personally meaningful and that will give you a purpose. Someone I know runs a scholarship fund for inner-city kids. Her goal was to help build community leaders, so the kids have to maintain a certain GPA in high school, be accepted into college, and keep a passing GPA during their college studies. In addition, she provides opportunities for them to work during high school and contribute to the fund, therefore allowing them to sacrifice their time to help someone else earn a college education. Though it is a non-profit, she lives a comfortable lifestyle (her husband works too) and she loves what she does.
Moral of the story, you can do it!
Ah, yeah, I did see that Kristof op/ed. I don't necessarily agree with some of his conclusions but it was still an interesting read, and he does make the point that it's more complicated than it seems.
Also, Kristof cites the 2006 book <em>Who Really Cares</em>, which makes the argument that conservatives tend to donate more to charitable causes than liberals and where, I suspect, Takuwind is basing their claim on. I'd have to read the book to have a meaningful opinion on it, although I do want to point out that an academic paper published in 2013 disputes some of the findings in the book.
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Really-Cares-Compassionate-Conservatism/dp/0465008232
Below is a link to one of the bigger studies that is often cited. I don't think it does justice to the full weight of the evidence and aggregated research that Brooks' book provides, but I do want to provide something to easily read for free:
https://www.philanthropy.com/interactives/how-america-gives#advanced
I've never seen a single study that has ever shown the opposite to be true, but I'd be open to reading what anyone knows about and can provide a link to. Again I want to help change OP's mind, but not based on false premises. I'm open to my mind being changed too!
The argument is uncompelling as they define charity as only things that liberals consider to be charity. They assume the conservatives giving to churches (which are in fact responsible for the most charity work of any type of organization in this country) are not doing true biblical charity, but they don't "readjust" the numbers for liberals that are giving to planned parenthood, world wildlife fund, etc. basically, even if you accept the dubious argument the make, you have to accept that it is being applied to only one side.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Who-Really-Cares-Compassionate-Conservatism/dp/0465008232
You can also ask people to donate to charity on your behalf if you haven't already considered that. I'm reading <strong>Doing Good Better</strong> and in it MacAskill demonstrates that some charities are up to 100x more effective than the rest of the pack. You can see the top recommended charities here.
I read a good simple argument in this book the other day:
Think about it in terms of expected value. Even if you are a climate skeptic, say you estimate there's a 0.01% chance that global warming is man made. You can't just assimilate that chance to zero because it's small. You have to weigh the small chance with the impact should the event come to pass. Small probability times F****NG HUGE DANGER outweighs even the more costly (in terms of effort or resources) actions intended to lessen the chance, not to mention the easy ones. So frustrating.
People are very misinformed when it comes to the world of philanthropy. I highly recommend the book Doing Good Better by William Macaskill.
I just updated my brainstorming post, copypaste here (taken from <em>Doing Good Better</em>:
> Research shows that the most consistent predictor of job satisfaction is engaging work, which can be broken down into five factors (this is known in psychology as the ‘job characteristics theory’): > > 1. Independence — To what extent do you have control over how you go about your work? > 2. Sense of Completion — To what extent does the job involve completing a whole piece of work, so that your contribution to the end product is easily visible, rather than being merely a small part of a much larger product? > 3. Variety — To what extent does the job require you to perform a range of different activities, using different skills and talents? > 4. Feedback from the job — How easy is it to know whether you're performing well or badly? > 5. Contribution — To what extent does your work ‘make a difference’, as defined by positive contributions to the wellbeing of other people? > > As well as job satisfaction, each of these factors also correlates with motivation, productivity and commitment to your employer. Moreover, these factor are similar to those required to develop flow, the pleasurable state of being so immersed in an activity that you're completely free of distractions and lose track of time, which some psychologists have argued is the key to having genuinely satisfying experiences.
http://www.watopot.org/volunteering/
Former HIV hospice now an orphanage for parents who passed away while living with HIV. Some of the children are HIV+.
My wife and I spent about 6 weeks there one summer. Really great experience.
Edit: There's also a book written about this place: http://www.amazon.com/In-Rocket-Made-Ice-Children/dp/0385353472
Sounds a bit like Ashoka, except not exactly. You should read How to Change the World.
It's on my list to read - it's just too damn expensive! The last time I was down at the scout shop it was at least $20! (...not a Kindle user - I prefer books with paper pages and such...)
Another great read is I Thought Scout Uniforms Were Fireproof! - funny, good stories with some great ideas for Scoutmasters (and assistants) .
If anyone is looking for a fantastic read, check out Hope in Hell, a collection of beautiful, terrifying, and frank views about MSF's history and current projects.
NB: I'm hoping to work for them someday soon!